Welcome to this week's issue of Sources
Hotlink. This week we are looking into the increasing government
control of the Internet and other media in countries such as Turkey and
Malaysia as well as the violence faced by journalists globally. We also
present articles regarding the journalistic coverage of the Ray Rice
abuse scandal and the importance of women in top editing jobs. For more
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Family seeks medical treatment for jailed journalist Mohamed Fahmy

The
family of jailed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy is seeking his
temporary release from an Egyptian jail for medical treatment, amid new
signs that the country’s President will not step in to resolve the case.

“[Mohamed] is not well, but he’s trying to stay strong,” Adel
Fahmy said in an interview on Sunday, describing his brother’s condition
as “life threatening.” Read more

Knife wielding man injuries three at Hong Kong media outlet

A
man carrying two knives was able to enter the headquarters of Hong Kong
Cable Television and injure three people, according to police reports.

At around 11 o’clock on September 22, a man aged about 20, armed
with two knives, entered the building at Tsuen Wan in the New
Territories and attacked three persons, including a security guard and a
staff member of the news department. According to police, the alleged
attacker wanted to meet a person from Cable TV to discuss his service
contract with the company. When the security officer refused to let the
suspect into the building, the suspect slashed at the guard. According
to a report on Cable TV, the security guard’s head and hand were hurt,
and the cameraman’s head was hit once by the suspect when he tried to
intervene to stop the attack. The alleged attacker was also injured. Read more

Diverse voices are missing from the debate over showing the Rice video

Poynter’s resident writing coach, Roy Peter Clark, argues that such violent videos need to be made public because they create “the public outrage and outcry that pierces the shield of even such impenetrable institutions of the NFL.”

His reasoning points to a growing chasm of compassion, dignity and
empathy in U.S. media that has grown from fault lines of race, class and
gender.

What Clark implies is that it’s OK to use a person’s private
experience — in this case, one that Janay Rice did not consent to or
have knowledge of — if it serves a greater good. I take issue with his
failure to mention how media routinely ignore the voices of women of
color, especially those who are victims of intimate partner violence —
until it happens that one of those women is a public figure. Read more

ASNE: Two-thirds of U.S. newspapers employ women in top editing jobs

The year 2013 was another gloomy year for newspaper women and
men. The overall count of full-time daily newspaper staffers dropped to
about 36,700 from about 38,000 last year — down about 3%. If there is a
silver lining, it is that the rate of job loss slowed from the previous
year, when it was down about 6%. The high-water mark for the ASNE
census was 56,900 full-time newsroom staffers in 1989 — fully 20,000
more than today. This year marks the first time that ASNE has tried to
identify women in the very top tier of newspaper leadership. And it
comes in the wake of the firing earlier this year
of the nation’s most prominent female editor — Jill Abramson of The New
York Times — for issues related to “management in the newsroom.” (She
was succeeded by an African-American, Dean Baquet; 15% of the papers surveyed told ASNE they had a minority journalist in one of the three top editing jobs.) Read more

Recent News Releases

Field Trip Responsibility a Two-Way Street

October
17th – 23rd is National School Safety Week, and the Canada Safety
Council wishes to remind parents to remain actively involved in field
trip risk management. “Parents need to be informed because every year we
have tragedies that happen on school trips,” says Raynald Marchand,
General Manager, Programs, at the Canada Safety Council.Field trips can
be a fun way for kids to learn, but serious injury can result when
safety rules are not enforced, risks aren't properly assessed or there’s
a breakdown in communication. Parents play a special role in helping
schools to manage risks on field trips Read more

Turkey's parliament approves even more Internet censorship and surveillance

Government agency given more power to block websites and gather user data.

Turkey’s national assembly passed two
last-minute amendments today expanding the grounds under which the High
Council for Telecommunications (TIB) can temporarily block websites
without a court order, and allowing it to gather Internet user
connection data independently of any ongoing investigation.

Coming just after the end of the Internet
Governance Forum in Istanbul, the amendments showed that the Turkish
authorities are ready to go even further down the road of Internet
censorship. Read more

Malaysian website reporter arrested and charged under Sedition Act

Susan Loone is facing up to three years in jail over an interview with the leader of an allegedly illegal organization

Malaysiakini
news website reporter Susan Loone is facing a possible three-year jail
term under the 1948 Sedition Act following her arrest in George Town,
the capital of the northwestern state of Penang, on 4 September for
interviewing the detained leader of an allegedly illegal local
organization.

Loone was arrested after she interviewed
Penang state councillor Phee Boon Poh by phone while he and other
members of the citizens’ militia he heads, the Voluntary Patrol Unit,
were in police custody.Read more

Delegation Visits Gaza to Provide Solidarity and Support to Journalists

Leaders
of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), its affiliate the
Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), and a number of leading
Egyptian journalists have concluded a two-day solidarity visit to
journalists in Gaza – the first by a trade union delegation following
the cease fire on 26th August. The mission was organised by the
Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ).

The joint delegation – led by IFJ president, Jim
Boumelha, PJS president, Abdelnasser Najjar, the president of the
Federazione Italiana de la Stampa Italiana, Franco Siddi, and PJS
vice-president Nasser Abu Baker, had to wait three days in Cairo to
receive clearance from the Egyptian authorities.

They then took 36 hours to travel the 200-mile
distance to the Rafah border, having to negotiate passage with dozens of
Egyptian military commanders of units deployed in the Sinai to combat a
protracted insurrection in what has become one of the most dangerous
conflict zones in the region.Read more

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